Zircon Lu-Hf isotopes and granite geochemistry of the Murchison Domain of the Yilgarn Craton: Evidence for reworking of Eoarchean crust during Meso-Neoarchean plume-driven magmatism

Lithos

Volumn 148, Issue , 2012, Pages 112-127

  Ivanic, Timothy J ^a   Van Kranendonk, Martin J ^a,c,d   Kirkland, Christopher L ^a   Wyche, Stephen ^a   Wingate, Michael T D ^a   Belousova, Elena A ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crustal evolution; Granite genesis; Lu Hf isotopes; Mantle plume; Murchison Domain; Yilgarn Craton

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; EMPLACEMENT; GRANITE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; PETROGENESIS; SOURCE ROCK;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 84863085772     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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